Founding Labs Engineer

PJ Media is an exciting new innovation and technology lab founded by entrepreneur Peter Jones of Dragons’ Den fame in the UK and Shark Tank in the U.S.. PJ Media is dedicated to helping brands of all sizes grow their ecommerce businesses by leveraging deep industry expertise, user-centric design, AI, big data analytics, and a hyper-agile approach to building ecommerce solutions that deliver real results.

We partner with brands, retailers, investors and entrepreneurs to bring their digital ideas to life—whether that means launching new platforms, scaling existing products, or unlocking new revenue streams through innovation. We love hard problems. We create, we invent, we do new things, we build new products.

Our clients and partners include Localised, Samsung, REFY Beauty, Saks Global, American Eagle Outfitters, Represent Clothing, Oh Polly, Jessops, OneFootball, Truly, Vodafone and a host of other Peter Jones portfolio companies and ecommerce-focussed brands across fashion, lifestyle, media, consumer goods and entertainment.

We are looking for a Founding Labs Engineer for a new office in beautiful Marlow, UK. You will work closely with Peter on defining how the PJ Media Technology Lab innovates and delivers real results. You will build and groom a team of high-performing ecommerce innovators who work collaboratively on redefining how ecommerce is conducted across product categories, languages, cultures, currencies and brands. You will establish and galvanize a culture of results-oriented innovation, shared values, and our methods for building exciting and new products.

More specifically, you will:

• Manage, mentor and build a high-performing and hands-on team in our Marlow office

• Obsess over solving problems using modern technologies and frameworks

• Identify, communicate, and implement the culture, environment and practices that define the Technology Lab and how it works

• Be hands-on, working directly with clients and the Labs team to understand problems, identify opportunities, develop and release products, features, insights and improvements

• Manage prioritization, feature backlog, and trade-offs

• Bring latest thinking, trends and market developments to inform strategy
  

This might be a perfect fit for you if:

• You have experience in an engineering team leadership role and building high-performing engineering teams

• You have experience in and around ecommerce experiences in lifestyle and/or fashion retail

• You have a diverse technical background and could be working at any level of the stack

• You are objective in the tools and technologies we use to realize business goals, and UX-centric development

• You believe technology and innovation serve to not just build beautiful products and business goals but to also make companies great to work at

• You have expert knowledge of front end development, and experience with modern libraries and tooling

• You have expert knowledge of back end development, building enterprise class back end infrastructure

• You enjoy working in a fast-paced and hard-working environment where the impact you make is immediate, obvious, significant and rewarding